The phrase "action drum" is not a standard expression in written English, but it can be understood in certain contexts.
It may be used in contexts related to music, film, or gaming, where it refers to a drum that produces energetic or dynamic sounds, often associated with action sequences.
Example: "The soundtrack featured an exhilarating action drum that heightened the intensity of the chase scene."
Alternatives: "dynamic percussion" or "energetic drum".
This week, at the NATO summit here in the rolling hills of Wales, Obama and members of his cabinet edged toward action, drumming up coalition support for action against the Islamic State.
When renting a sander, look for a machine called a lever-action drum sander.
According to Michael Holman, the first journalist to use the word "hip-hop" in print, the best way to describe The Good Foot is: "Imagine a majorette marching in a parade taking steps raised high at the knee, but keeping it in the air for a beat before dropping it down and simultaneously raising the other leg, like a stop-action drum majorette on beat".
But once in action, the drum allowed for an epic fluency in dramas with multiple scene changes: you can stock a new interior, or even a landscape, behind the scene currently being played.
It's not often an action movie drums up Oscar buzz, but such is the case with Mad Max: Fury Road, George Miller's sensational return to the franchise that made his name.
It is organic synchronicity, a marriage of player anticipation of probable action (albeit drummed into them by repeated practice) with extreme visual and sense perception.
They say the action strove to drum up more support for a counter-demonstration at an April 15 Freedom rally.
The slow rotary action of the drum alternately bathes and exposes the cells as they dip in and out of the maintenance medium and encourages the cells to divide.
As the title suggests, the movie deals only with the "during" phase of the attacks, which Bay renders with his trademark onslaught of frenetic, choppily edited action, pounding battle drums and militaristic machismo.
A taste of how the two sides conflicted during the sessions for the Stooges can be heard in the original John Cale mix of No Fun, appended to the 2005 reissue of the album; the producer slows down the tape a smidge, pitching Ig's howl and Asheton's acerbic guitar squall lower and, crucially, losing the street-smart clip of Scott "Rock Action" Asheton's drums.
"The action in 'The Tin Drum' mirrors that in 'Ferdydurke,' " Mr. Kuharski said, "but it's a flip side, with Oscar, who never grows up," versus "Josef, condemned to return to adolescence".
